Magpie
Magpie Fly, bold piebald bird, away from my home!. You sharp-eyed thief of gaudy curios And gossip of importunate discord, Who bring misfortune on your two-toned plumes And herald worse disasters yet to be; There is not space enough, here, […]
Creative Progress
Creative Progress Around us, everything we see reveals Progress, from youth to age, simplicity To more complexity. Innocence feels Growing experience, whilst clumsiness Learns facile skills. These are progressions good And natural, made by Creation’s rules. […]
Exploration and Discovery
Exploration and Discovery Amalgamated Cook and Darwin, now I have the opportunity to search The world, (home and abroad, both near and far), For fossilised remains and recent strains Still extant, (wheresoever they may be Discovered), of Rima […]
Cool Avenues
Cool Avenues Along cool avenues in thought I walked Beneath the high-branched, leafy-shading trees More venerable than Methuselah. Remembrance came and went like dappled pools Of light and shade across the surfaces […]
Expedition
Expedition Once, we were seven ships. Three were left beached In England. A fourth, newly to Colours Called, now leaves to start patrols in Britain’s Name. And soon the mother-ship, (frail pinnace, Too small safely to sail […]
Broom
Broom Small pale-leaved bush, besprent With dark, sulphureous flowers Tinged faintly red; It looks as though someone Has pricked your gorsy blooms And made them bleed Plantagenetical!.
Trust
Trust It seems to me that, when I place my trust In humankind, something always goes wrong!. Though with the best intentions and most strong Affections, promises are turned to dust. No, I’m not cynical of friends!. It’s just […]
Time
Time (1984) Two thirds of my expected span are gone: Scarce twenty-five more years remain to me In which to make my mark in history. It is too short, too brief a time, (God knows), For building stairs to immortality!. John Keats, that skilful genius, himself Just reached in total […]
Voyeurs?
Voyeurs? Are poets spies upon æsthetica?. They watch events around them through keen eyes, (From the overall generality To the minutest of particulars), Whilst noting with descriptive acumen Their stimulation of, (or by), the most […]
Chivalrous?
Chivalrous? I love. That is enough For all my needs; Though what my lover wants […]